Sentences with phrase «like brain training»

Using it feels like a brain training exercise.

Despite industry doubts over the appeal of a dual - screen handheld console, the Nintendo DS was a phenomenon, going on to sell over 150m units and thriving on beautiful, accessible games like Brain Training, Advance Wars, Animal Crossing and Mario Kart DS.

However, while the games maintained cult popularity, they werent seeing a fraction of the success of new Nintendo franchises like Brain Training or Wii Sports.

Not exact matches

However, many in the industry are hopeful doctors will one day prescribe game - like cognitive exercises as part of a healthy brain training regimen.

Research has shown that we can train and develop our brains just like we can with our muscles.

«When you tell your audience a story, the brain lights up like a freaking pinball machine,» says communication expert Leslie Ehm, who uses the principles of neuroscience in her leadership and presentation training with executives.

This new research suggests that games with a little more problem solving and a few more spatially complex tasks may help train the brain's hippocampus for things like remembering lost keys and recalling new names.

In fact, by engaging in small, daily tasks — like the ones we designed for Happify — you can train your brain to focus on the positive and perceive additional opportunities for positive changes in your life.

If the PSG asks you to roll over and bark like a dog in basic training (which, being Fort Jackson, I'm assuming this was) then you roll over and bark your brains out.

When I was training to be a chef, I went through a good many months of this jinx, it was like my brain knew there was a sweet first - aid kit hanging on the wall and it didn't matter.

«Football Is such a «simple & Easy» game, anyone with an average brain, athletic & fit can be trained to play like Messi, Ronaldo and Ronaldinho etc.with correct Coaching, Practice, Training having gone through DVDs of past games, mistakes pin pointed and corrections grilled and formations drilled in practice everyday until it becomes automated.Imprinting the «Blueprint»

«It's kind of like weight training,» said Richard Davidson, PhD, psychology and psychiatry professor at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, director of the Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior, and founder of the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds.

I'd like to open up another discussion about it, but pick your brains for ideas about training a non-only child who is at the whim of an older child's schedule, and also for training a child (who isn't so sure about it) when there's a childcare issue involved.

but if sounds like he may just need to have some sleep training more than 2x per night is not healthy he is not getting a good night sleep that he needs for his brain development and at 13 most babies only need 1 nap per day 1 1/2 -2 hours at most.

I feel like getting him up is helping to train his body / brain to get up to pee, except that I'm doing it on my schedule, not his.

Some of Greg Downey's Best Stuff Balance between cultures — equilibrium training How your brain is not like a computer We hate memes, pass it on... Neuroplasticity on the radio Girls closing math gap?

Brain training is a treatment for enhancing memory and thinking skills by practising mentally challenging computer - based exercises — which are designed to look and feel like video games.

Draaisma derides the «forgetfulness market» and debunks the idea that memory is like a muscle whose performance can be improved with brain - training games.

Rather than being programmed, the neural network, like the human brain, responds to training: It can continually integrate new information and change its response accordingly.

These results, published this week by the Journal of Cognitive Enhancement, suggest it's possible to train the brain like other body parts — with targeted workouts.

It is thrilling for me as a cognitive neuroscientist, who has previously studied age - related cognitive decline, to find that cognitive training has the potential to strengthen the aging brain to function more like a younger brain.»

Therefore, you can't directly train a computer to recognize what context «looks like» in the brain because context is a continually moving and evolving target.

Activities that engage your brain like learning and certain kinds of «cognitive training» increase connections between brain cells.

The trick is to train your brain to think like a visionary and learn to make little choices today that are more in alignment with long - term success.

During my first year of CrossFit, I had to train my brain every single day through practices like journaling, meditation, and breathing exercises.

Brain training programs can help to improve brain plasticity and brain skills like memory, concentration, and many other skills that help boost mental enBrain training programs can help to improve brain plasticity and brain skills like memory, concentration, and many other skills that help boost mental enbrain plasticity and brain skills like memory, concentration, and many other skills that help boost mental enbrain skills like memory, concentration, and many other skills that help boost mental energy.

Judith S. Beck, PhD, our Feel Great Weight motivation guru is director of the Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research; associate professor in psychology and psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania; author of The Beck Diet Solution: Train Your Brain to Think Like a Thin Person.

Biofeedback techniques use technology to give you real - time measurements on things like your heart rate, palm temperature, and brain waves — training you to use your thoughts to manipulate your physical body.

Companies like Lumosity charge you a monthly fee for brain - training games, but playing puzzle games on your kid's Xbox may have the same effects — and depending on what you play, may be even more effective.

Whether it's a brisk walk in nature, yoga, or HIIT training, exercise does tons for your health — like increasing something called BDNF (brain - derived neurotrophic factor), which regenerates brain cells!

Green tea not only has that l - thianine that I talked about but it also has epigallocatechin in it or what's known as EGCG and some different forms of what are called epicatechins and all of these have been shown to be very potent for elevating your brain and your neuronial activity so kinda like keeping green tea coming in during the days that you're doing your speed training, that can be really helpful as well.

It might seem like you exercise your brain enough at work every day, but training your brain is just as important for your physical health as building muscle.

You will be training like a pro the moment you open this e-Book with plenty of «no - brains - required» exercise descriptions, pictures and videos.

Just like a fighter doesn't go into the ring without training and expects to win the fight, the brain requires frequent stimulation or training so that it can flex its muscles, hypothetically speaking of course.

(Remember the «unconscious» mind is like a different brain on its own, it has its own beliefs, training and programming.

Would you like to train your brain?

Exercises like resistance training, walking and jogging and can also enhance * memory so this would be a good addition to memory enhancers or brain supplements.

Crosswords and Puzzles Even simple puzzles like crosswords help train the brain.

They make training their brains a priority, just like their bodies.

His mother (Anne - Marie Duff) was brain - damaged by an accident (she was struck by the door of a moving train), and now she's a mentally ill free spirit who sits around, doffing her clothes, painting and cooking and babbling — not quite there, yet she's like a hippie ahead of her time.

They include: mindfulness training, through exercises like meditation or disciplined physical exercise, such as yoga; aerobic exercise, which has been shown to strengthen brain function; and cognitive behavioral programs, such as those used to help children learn impulse control, a type of intervention that falls into the broader category of «social emotional learning» (SEL).

I'm a school librarian by training, and though I'm freelance writing now and not currently in a school library, that school - librarian part of my brain gets excited when I see books like this.

Much like their canine counterparts, training your cat stimulates the brain, gives them a job to do and gives them a more enriched life.

Too bad, they need to be trained or they'll find something on their own to stimulate their brains (and trust me you won't like whatever they find to do).

But Nintendo, based in Kyoto, Japan, has also developed several titles for middle - aged adults, like Brain Age and Big Brain Academy, two memory - training games, and Flash Focus, a game designed to improve visual acuity.

The least - liked were The Men's Machine Gun Platform (no surprise there - 55 votes), The Oneechanpon (Oneechanbara games often show up in both rankings - 10 votes), The Pirate (7 votes), The Right - Brain Drill (D3's half - hearted attempt to cash in on the brain - training craze - 2 votes), and The Tennis (PSP - 2 voBrain Drill (D3's half - hearted attempt to cash in on the brain - training craze - 2 votes), and The Tennis (PSP - 2 vobrain - training craze - 2 votes), and The Tennis (PSP - 2 votes).

It's a nonsensical backdrop made only stranger when Valvatorez forsakes his powers to become a Prinny Instructor, tasked with training a platoon of pea - brained penguin - like demons.

«We wanted to bring old gamers back to playing and appeal to people who wanted to enrich their lives through games like Wii Sports and Brain Training.

In their book on moral panics around video games — Moral Combat — Markey and Ferguson dedicate a chapter to debunking some of the proposed positive effects of video games, like the widely exaggerated benefits of brain training games.

The PS3 side of the deal includes sales on the PlayStation Eye camera and games such as Haze and Soul Calibur IV among others, while the DS sale involves a 3 - for - 2 deal on games like New Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, Mario Kart DS, Clubhouse Games, a slew of Nintendogs titles, some Pokemon material, and titles from the brain and vision training genres.